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The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark

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Released
  
1997

Artist
  
Grant Green

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Length
  
134:59

Release date
  
15 July 1997

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
December 23, 1961 (CD 1, 8-10; CD2 1-3) January 13, 1962 (CD 1, 1-7) January 31, 1962 (CD 2, 4-9) Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Producers
  
Alfred Lion, Michael Cuscuna

Similar
  
Grant Green albums, Jazz albums

The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark is a 1997 compilation album by jazz guitarist Grant Green, collecting together all the tracks from a series of albums he recorded with pianist Sonny Clark in 1961 and '62.

Contents

The original material was shelved until after Clark's death in 1963 and Grant's death in 1979, and was first issued only in Japan as the albums Nigeria, Oleo and Gooden's Corner. The collection also includes one additional tune, "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)", and alternative takes of "Airegin" and "Oleo", all recorded during the same sessions, and originally featured on a 1989 Mosaic collection.

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection. A review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic.com stated, "this is superb music, showcasing the guitarist and pianist at their very best." Writing for All About Jazz, Reid Thomspon described the album as "full of intuition, soul, and swing, and lacking in pretense," going on to say that the album "has me asking myself 'does music get any better than this?'"

Disc one

  1. "Airegin" (Sonny Rollins) - 7:32
  2. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 10:22
  3. "I Concentrate on You" (Porter) - 5:48
  4. "The Things We Did Last Summer" (Cahn, Styne) - 5:56
  5. "The Song Is You" (Hammerstein II, Kern) - 7:46
  6. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Van Heusen, Silvers) - 6:25
  7. "Airegin" [Alternative Take] - 7:37
  8. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Kaper, Washington) - 6:26
  9. "Shadrack" (MacGimsey) - 6:23
  10. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) - 5:50

Disc two

  1. "Moon River" (Mancini, Mercer) - 5:37
  2. "Gooden's Corner" - 8:14
  3. "Two for One" - 7:41
  4. "Oleo" (Sonny Rollins) – 5:37
  5. "Little Girl Blue" (Hart, Rodgers) – 7:15
  6. "Tune-Up" (Eddie Vinson) – 7:19
  7. "Hip Funk" (Green) – 8:39
  8. "My Favorite Things" (Hammerstein II, Rodgers) – 8:32
  9. "Oleo" [Alternative Take] - 6:00

Personnel

  • Grant Green - guitar
  • Sonny Clark - piano
  • Sam Jones - bass
  • Art Blakey - drums (disc one, tracks 1-7)
  • Louis Hayes - drums (all other tracks)

    • Songs

    1Airegin7:32
    2It Ain't Neccessarily So10:22
    3I Concentrate on You5:49

    References

    The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark Wikipedia
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